Thinking of getting the Trav'ler to replace my dish on a pole setup. Will yhen allow me take it on the road. Install seems pretty straight forward. Right now I use KU-band satellites 110°, 119° and 129° for my setup, on the east coast. I set up a friends system last week after Dish gave him hassles, using the three satellites. Dish told him that would be temporary since they were doing away with the 110 and 119. Whether they do or not, does anyone know if the Trav'ler can track on to the newer satellites or be upgraded to in the future? For almost $1200 I wouldn't want to install it and have to replace it in a year or two. Can't find any info searching Wineguard site. Thanks.

Called Dish and Winegard. The Trav'ler is western arc only and not upgradeable. They are working on a larger dish that will support both arcs. No timeframe. Dish tech told me that they are trying to switch all the eastern folks to the eastern arc satellites and that they carry the local HD channels. As for losing satellites, I was told no, no plans currently but using the western arc I would not get HD on my local channels. For my use, the Trav'ler will work all the way down the east coast and going west, which is what I wanted to make sure of. The installer that came out for my friend apparently had bad information or didn't want to set him up. I did his setup and had no issues getting him running on the western arc. I just had to make sure that putting holes in my rig for the antenna wasn't going to be a short term solution.

but, having been all over the rectangle from Texas to the North Carolina and Arkansas to Florida with nary a problem from the winegard, had hoped that info was skewed a bit (get it ? sat talk )

Ya, I hear ya. We have the old school set up with the Dish 500 and dual LNB's. Have the old inline SAT finder and the tripod for the DISH. Works great, I get excerize running back and forth from dish to TV to see if we got the signal , till the MF falls over in the wind